Albany, N. Y.; first vice-president, John L. Shortall, Chicago; secretary, Nathaniel J. Walker, Albany, N. Y.; treasurer, Edgar McDonald, Brooklyn; directors, Albert Lefingwell, Aurora, N. Y.; John L. Shortall, Chicago; Mrs. Huntington Smith, Boston; William O. Stillman, Albany, N. Y.; Mrs. Carolina Earle White, Philadelphia; Alfred Wagstaff, New York City; Robert J. Wilkin, Brooklyn; John Partridge, San Francisco; Peter G. Gerry, Newport, R. I.; Dr. E. L. Conger, Pasadena, Cal.; Dr. Francis H. Rowley, Boston; Walter F. Brown, Toledo, Ohio; Sydney Richmond Taber, Chicago; Mrs. Wm. N. Wood, Birmingham, Ala.; Thomas D. Flynn, New Orleans, La.

The American Institute of Social Service.

Organized 1898. Object: The gathering and disseminating of information on all branches of social thought and service. Officers: President, Josiah Strong; lecturer, James H. Ecob; treasurer, John T. Perkins, Astor Place Bank, New York. Headquarters, Bible House, Astor Place, New York.

The American National Red Cross.

Chartered by Congress, January 5, 1905. The purposes of this corporation are: ""To furnish volunteer aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war; to act in matters of voluntary relief in accord with the military and naval authorities; to continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same." Officers: President, Hon. William H. Taft; vice-president, Robert W. De Forest; treasurer, Lee McClung; counsellor, William Marshall Bullitt; national director, Ernest P. Bicknell; secretary, Charles L. Magee; central committee-Major General George W. Davis, U. S. A. (retired), chairman; General Charles Bird, U. S. A. (retired); Miss Mabel T. Boardman, William Marshall Bullitt, William W. Farnam, Robert W. De Forest, John M. Glenn, A. C. Kaufman, Lee McClung, Judge W. W. Morrow, Charles Nagel, Charles D. Norton, H. Kirke Porter, Surgeon General Charles F. Stokes, U. S. N.; James Tanner, Brigadier General George H. Torney, U. S. A.; Huntington Wilson, Beekman Winthrop. American Peace and Arbitration League,

Incorporated 1909. National headquarters, No. 31 Nassau street, New York City. Objects: Universal peace by the judicial settlement of international disputes; arbitration in permanent international court of arbitral justice; treaties between the United States and foreign nations; the limitation of armaments by international agreement. Officers: President, Henry Clews; vice-president, Levi P. Morton; treasurer, J. Van Vechten Olcott; general secretary, Andrew B. Humphrey, No. 31 Nassau street, New York City. Executive committee: William A. Clark, chairman; Robert C. Morris, vice-chairman; James Grant Wilson, Selden Twitchell, J. Van Vechten Olcott, Mrs. Elmer Black, Dr. L. L. Seaman,

American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society.

Incorporated in 1895 by the New York Legislature, with the object of preserving, either by the acquisition as public trustees or otherwise, beautiful American scenery and landmarks and objects possessing scenic or historic value. President, George F. Kunz, New York; honorary president, J. Pierpont Morgan, New York; vice-presidents, Henry W. Sackett, H. M. Leipziger, George W. Perkins, New York, and L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. Y.; treasurer, N. Taylor Phillips, New York; secretary, Edward Hagaman Hall, Tribune Building, New York.

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The objects of this society, 'incorporated April 10, 1866, are: "To provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States; to enforce all laws which are row, or may hereafter be, enacted for the protection of animals; and to secure by lawful means the arrest, conviction and punishment of all persons violating such laws. A further object of the society shall be to instruct the people to be kind to animals by the dissemination of humane literature and other effective methods." Officers: President, Alfred Wagstaff; secretary, Richard Welling; treasurer, Henry Bergh. Headquarters, Madison avenue and 26th street, New York.

American Veterans of Foreign Service.

An organization composed of officers and enlisted men who served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States of America, in Cuba or Porto Rico, between April 21, 1898, and June 1, 1899, in the China Relief Expedition, or in Guam or the Philippines, from April 21, 1898, to July 4, 1902, or who, since July 4, 1902, have served in the Philippines and whose service entitled them to campaign badges issued by the government of the United States. Officers: Commander-in-Chief, R. G. Woodside, Berger Building, Pittsburgh, Penn.; senior vice-commander-in-chief, Fred S. Morrison; junior vice-commander-in-chief, Joseph Drew; adjutant general, H. I. Arnold; quartermaster general, W. S. Haddock; judge advocate general, Col. James E. Barnett, all of Pittsburgh, Penn.; surgeon general, A. B. Gloninger, M. D., Lebanon, Penn.; chaplain, Rev. John R. Edwards, Denver, Colo. Headquarters, Pittsburgh, Penn.

Army and Naval Medal of Honor Legion.

This organization is composed of men to whom medals have been given by the national government for conspicuous bravery outside the line of duty. Membership, 400. Officers: Commander, John H. Cook, New York; senior vice-commander, Col. Charles H. Houghton, New Jersey; junior vice-commander, Michael G. Gibbons, United States Navy, Portsmouth, Va.; historian, J. Madison Drake, Elizabeth, N. J.; chaplain, Rev. William S. Hubbell, New York; adjutant, Benjamin B. Levy, New York; quartermaster, Alexander A. Forman, Brooklyn, N. Y.;

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judge advocate, Moses Veale, Philadelphia; surgeon, Edward P. Grimes, U. S. A., New York; inspector, George E. Albee, U. S. A., Maryland; chief of staff, Frederick S. Neilson, Massachusetts; executive committee, George W. Brush, Brooklyn, N. Y.; William J. Wray, Philadelphia; John Brosnan, U. S. Navy, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles E. Morse, New York; Francis W. Judge, New York. The next reunion of the Legion will be held at Gettysubrg, July 1, 2 and 3, 1913. Army and Navy Union.

Officers: National commander, George Russell Downs, U. S. A., Erie, Penn.; senior vice-national commander, Louis K. Passmore, Marlboro, N. Y.; junior vicenational commander, John P. Cangher, Old Point Comfort, Va.; adjutant general, Thomas H. Avery, Brooklyn, N. Y.; judge advocate general, Lemuel Fugitt, Washington, D. C.: inspector general, John A. Miller, St. Louis, Mo.; paymaster general, J. R. McCullough, Newburg, N. Y.; surgeon general, Dr. J. E. Hendrickson, Hampton, Va.; chaplain, John E. Cox, Cincinnati, Ohio. Next biennial encampment, Gettysburg, Penn., September, 1913.

Army and Navy Union-Ladies' Auxiliary.

Is composed of local garrisons working under the jurisdiction of a national corps chartered by the National Corps, Army and Navy Union. All loyal ladies who have an interest in the welfare of the defenders of our flag are eligible to membership. Officers: National commander, Mrs. Sophia Kappes, No. 518 Union Place, Weehawken, N. J.; adjutant general, Mrs. E. B. Jordan, No. 511 E street, S. E., Washington, D. C.; paymaster general, Mrs. Mary E. De Marzo, No. 316 15th street, N. E., Washington, D. C.

Army of the Tennessee Association,

The Army of the Tennessee Association was organized in 1902 "to keep alive the memory of each other and the stirring scenes in which the army took a part from 1861 to 1865." The officers are: President, H. L. Deam, Washington, D. C.; vicepresidents, George Grindley, A. D. Gaston, W. M. Jones and B. F. Chase; secretary, Byron W. Bonney, No. 624 C street N. E., Washington, D. C.; treasurer, James S. Roy.

Association of Day Nurseries of New York City.

Organized 1900. Officers: President, Mrs. Richard Irvin; vice-president, Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge; secretary, Miss Flora Benjamin; treasurer, Mrs. Samuel Sloan, jr. Office, Room 507, No. 105 East 22d street, New York City.

Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association.

Headquarters, Crozer Building, Philadelphia, Penn, President, J. Hampton Moore, Philadelphia, Penn.; secretary-treasurer, Wilfred H. Schoff, Pennsylvania; assistant secretary, Durrell Shuster, Pennsylvania.

Aztec Club.

Organized in the City of Mexico in 1847. Eligible to membership, officers in the Mexican War and their descendants. Officers: President, Dr. Wm. M. Polk; vice-president, General H. G. Gibson, U. S. A.; secretary, Wm. S. Abert, Washington, D. C.; treasurer, William Turnbull, New York City.

Children of the American Revolution.

The national Society of the Children of the American Revolution was incorporated April 11, 1895, under the laws of Congress applicable to the District of Columbia, and its headquarters are in Washington. The officers for 1912-'13 are: President, Mrs. Albert B. Cummings; vice-president in charge of organizations, Mrs. Frank Bond; recording secretary, Miss Catherine Custis; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Ellis Logan, No. 1253 Irving street, Washington, D. C.; treasurer, Mrs. Violet Blair Janin, No. 12 Lafayette Square, Washington, D. C.

Conference on the Education of Backward, Truant, Delinquent and Dependent Children.

Organized in 1904. Purpose: Co-operation among those interested in the above named classes of children. Secretary, E. L. Coffeen, Westboro, Mass. The next meeting is to be held at Seattle, Wash., in June, 1913.

Dames of the Revolution.

The Society of Dames of the Revolution was organized in 1896. The society is composed of women above the age of eighteen years, of good moral character, who are descended in their own right from an ancestor who, either as a military, naval or marine officer, or official in the service of any one of the thirteen original colonies or states, or of the National Government representing or composed of those colonies or states, assisted in establishing American independence during the War of the Revolution. The president is Mrs. Montgomery Schuyler, No. 250 Wingah avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y.; secretary, Miss K. J. Č. Carville, No. 257 Webster avenue, New Rochelle.

Daughters of the American Revolution.

The society, organized in Washington, D. C., October 11, 1890, is composed of women who are descendants of ancestors any of whom "with unfailing loyalty rendered material aid to the cause of independence as a recognized patriot, as soldier or sailor, or as a civil officer in one of the several colonies or states." The present membership is about 95,000. Headquarters, Memorial Continental Hall, 17th and D streets, N. W., Washington, D. C.. National board of management: President general, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott; vice-president general, Mrs. Henry L. Mann (Frances Ingraham), Washington, D. C.; chaplain general, Miss Elizabeth F. Pierce, Washington, D. C.; recording secretary general, Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, Washing

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ton, D. C.; corresponding secretary general, Mrs. W. F. Dennis, Washington, D. C.; registrar general, Mrs. Gains M. Brumbaugh; treasurer general, Mrs. William D. Hoover; historian general, Mrs. Charles Wesley Bassett; librarian general, Miss Amaryllis Gilett.

Daughters of the Revolution.

Society organized August 20, 1891. Membership is based on direct descent from Revolutionary ancestors. The headquarters of the general society are at No. 156 Fifth avenue, New York. The officers are: President general, Mrs. Clarence L. Bleakley, Yonkers, N. Y.; first vice-president general, Mrs. Nathaniel S. Keay; second vicepresident general, Mrs. George E. Smith; third vice-president general, Mrs. Robert Ward; fourth vice-president general, Mrs. Washington Yale; recording secretary general, Mrs. Herbert B. Henry; corresponding secretary general, Mrs. Fred M. Goss; treasurer general, Mrs. Frank P. Whiting; registrar general, Miss Mary A. Todd; historian general, Miss Mary H. Hinton; librarian general, Mrs. Axel 0. Ihlseng; corresponding secretary of the New York state society, Miss Edith Phillips Gambrill, No. 2032 Madison avenue, New York City.

Daughters of Veterans.

The order was organized at Massillon, Ohio, in May, 1885, and chartered December 2, 1885. All daughters and granddaughters (lineal descendants) of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines who served in the Union army or navy during the Rebellion of 1861-'65, and who have attained the age of fifteen years, are eligible for membership. Officers: President, Miss Nina Littlefield, No. 1388 Massachusetts avenue, Cambridge, Mass.; senior vice-president, Mrs. May C. Kidder, Milford, N. H.; Junior vice-president, Lulu Carlin, Chicago, Ill.; chaplain, Mrs. Agnes Davis, Minneapolis, Minn.; inspector, Alice Gilleland, Denver, Col.; patriotic instructor, Miss Nellie Orchard, New London, Conn.; treasurer, Miss Augusta M. Snyder, Box 25, Massillon, Ohio; secretary, Helen Littlefield, No. 1388 Massachusetts avenue, Cambridge, Mass.

Federated Boys' Clubs.

Organized in 1905. Officers: President, Thomas Chew, Fall River, Mass.; vicepresident, William Byron Forbush, Ph. D.; treasurer, Frank A. Day; acting executive secretary, George D. Chamberlain, Boston, Mass. Office, No. 35 Congress street, Room 308, Boston, Mass.

General Federation of Women's Clubs.

Incorporated by act of Congress of April 28, 1904. Officers: President, Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, No. 2606 Whitis avenue, Austin, Tex.; first vice-president, Mrs. L. L. Blankenburg, Philadelphia, Penn.; second vice-president, Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath, Tiffin, Ohio; treasurer, Mrs. John Threadgill, No. 922 North Robinson street, Oklahoma City, Okla.; auditor, Mrs. C. H. McMahon, Salt Lake City, Utah; recording secretary, Mrs. Harry L. Keefe, Walthill, Neb.; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Eugene Reilley, No. 508 Park avenue, Charlotte, N. C.

Grand Army of the Republic.

First post organized at Decatur, Ill., April 6, 1866. First national encampment held at Indianapolis, November 20, 1866. There are forty-four state and territorial departments. The officers of the national body are: Commander in chief, Alfred B. Beers, Bridgeport, Conn.; senior vice-commander, H. Z. Osborne, Los Angeles, Cal.; junior vice-commander, Americus Whedon, Louisville, Ky.; chaplain in chief, George E. Lovejoy, Lawrence, Mass.; surgeon general, Dr. L. L. Whitaker, San Antonio, Tex.; adjutant general, Henry Seely, Bridgeport, Conn.; quartermaster general, Colonel D. R. Stowits, Buffalo, N. Y. Headquarters, Bridgeport, Conn.

Military Order of Foreign Wars.

Instituted December 27, 1894. Incorporated January 15, 1895. Eligibility: Veteran commissioned officers of the Revolution, war with Tripoli, war with Mexico, War of 1812, war with Spain, and all subsequent foreign wars. Hereditary companions are defined as direct male descendants in the male line of veteran companions and all commissioned officers in any one of the above named wars. The officers of the National Commandery for 1911-1914 are: Commander general, General Charles F. Roe; secretary general, David Banks, No. 23 Park Place, New York City; treasurer general, Colonel O. C. Bosbyshell, Philadelphia; registrar general, Rev. Henry N. Wayne; judge advocate general, Henry W. Lamberton. There are twenty-two subordinate or state commanderies. Membership, 1,600.

Military Order of the Loyal Legion,

Organized April 15, 1865; non-sectarian and non-political. The members are of three classes: (1) Commissioned officers and honorably discharged commissioned officers of the army, navy and marine corps (regulars and volunteers) actually engaged in suppressing the Rebellion prior to April 15, 1865, and all sons of deceased officers who served as above. (2) The sons of living original companions of the first class who are twenty-one years old. Membership on January 1, 1909, 9,432. National officers are: Commander in chief, Colonel Arnold A. Rand; senior vice-commander in chief, Rear Admiral Edwin Stewart; junior vice-commander in chief, Lieutenant Colonel Edwin A. Landell; recorder in chief, Colonel John P. Nicholson, Philadelphia; register, Thomas H. McKee, District of Columbia; treasurer, Brigadier General Joseph W. Plume; chancellor, Captain John O. Foering; chaplain, the Rev. Henry S. Burrage, D. D.; council, Colonel Cornelius Cadie; paymaster, George DeF. Barton; Henry M. Rogers and William R. Hodges.

Military Order of Medal of Honor.

Organized 1910. Membership is limited to holders of medals of honor awarded by Congress for distinguished service in battle. Officers: President, General D. E.

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Sickles; vice-president, General J. M. Schoonmaker; secretary, General Horatio C. King, No. 44 Court street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; treasurer, N. D. Preston.

National Association of Naval Veterans, U. S. of A., 1861-1865.

The National Association of Naval Veterans was organized in 1887 by the combination of various naval organizations throughout the United States. The prime object was to keep in touch with one another. Officers: Charles F. Dice, commodore commanding, No. 319 52d street, Philadelphia, Penn.; Charles H. Shepard, fleet captain, No. 343 West 23d street, New York, N. Y.; W. H. Comstock, fleet commander and chief of staff, Denver, Colo.; Francis McCarten, fleet lieutenant commander, Los Angeles, Cal.; A. W. Ward, fleet lieutenant, Rochester, N. Y.; Alex. S. McWilliams, fleet chaplain, Detroit, Mich.; Henry J. Brewer, M. D., fleet surgeon, No. 477 14th street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Cornelius Stringham, fleet boatswain, Jamaica, N. Y.; William A. Hollman, fleet judge advocate, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Cyrus Sears, fleet historian, Baltimore, Md.; Henry F. McCollum, fleet secretary and paymaster, 40 Shelter street, New Haven, Conn.

National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Organized in 1904. Officers: President, Homer Folks, New York City; Theodore Roosevelt and Sir William Osler, honorary vice-presidents; Dr. Robert H. Babcock, Chicago, and Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, Saranac Lake, vice-presidents; treasurer, General George M. Sternberg, Washington; secretary, Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, No. 11 Mt. Vernon Place West, Baltimore, Md.; executive secretary, Dr. Livingston Farrand, New York City. Office, Room 514, United Charities Building, No. 105 East 22d street, New York City.

National Child Labor Committee.

The committee was organized April 15, 1904, and incorporated by act of Congress March 8, 1907. Officers: Chairman, Dr. Felix Adler; vice-chairmen, Homer Folks and Samuel McCune Lindsay; treasurer, V. Everit Macy; general secretary, Owen R. Lovejoy. Main office, No. 105 East 22d street, New York City.

The National Citizens' League.

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The object of the league is the promotion of a sound banking system. quarters, No. 223 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Ill. President, John V. Farwell; vice-president, John Barton-Payne; treasurer, A. C. Bartlett; general secretary, A. D. Welton, all of Chicago; chairman executive committee, J. Laurence Laughlin, University of Chicago.

National Conference of Charities and Correction,

Established 1874. The present membership is about 3,000. Officers: President, Frank Tucker, New York; vice-presidents, F. H. Nibecker, Glenn Mills, Penn.; James R. Garfield, Cleveland, O.; O. K. Cushing, San Francisco, Cal.; general secretary, Alexander Johnson, Angola, Ind.; assistant secretaries, Winthrop D. Lane, New York; J. J. Kelso, Parliament Building, Toronto, Can.; Miss Katherine Felton, San Francisco, Cal.; Miss Virginia McMechen, Seattle, Wash.; V. R. Manning, Jacksonville, Fla.; Robert Kelso, Boston, Mass.; W. S. Reynolds, Chicago, Ill.; treasurer, Washington Loan and Trust Co., Washington, D. C. Next meeting at Seattle, Wash., July 2, 1913.

National Consumers' League.

Organized 1899. Object: To promote better conditions among the workers while securing to the consumers exemption from the dangers attending unwholesome conditions of production. Officers: President, John Graham Brooks, Cambridge, Mass.; vice-presidents, Mrs. Frederick Nathan, New York City; Miss Jane Addams, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. S. S. Fels, Philadelphia, Penn.; Miss Myrta L. Jones, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. B. C. Gudden, Oshkosh. Wis.; Mrs. M. R. Trumbull, Portland, Ore.; Mrs. R. P. Halleck, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Isham Henderson, New Haven, Conn.; treasurer G. H. Kinnicutt, New York City; recording secretary, Mrs. G. W. B. Cushing, No. 50 Munn avenue, East Orange, N. J.; general secretary, Mrs. Florence Kelley. New York City; publication secretary, Miss Josephine Goldmark, Office, New York City; Southern secretary, Miss Jean Gordon, New Orleans, La. No. 106 East 19th street, New York City.

National Economic League.

The object of the league is the education and expression of public opinion. Executive Council: David Starr Jordan, chairman, Leland Stanford, Jr., University; Harvey S. Chase, No. 84 State street, Boston, Mass., treasurer; J. W. Beatson, No. 6 Beacon street, Boston, Mass., secretary.

National Education Association.

The purpose of the National Education Association is to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of education in the United States. Officers: President, Edward T. Fairchild, president of New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Durham, N. H.; vice-presidents, Carroll G. Pearse, superintendent of schools, Milwaukee, Wis.; Guy Potter Benton, president of the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.: Martha Stromberg, School No. 22, Baltimore, Md.; Waltman T. Barbe, professor of English, University of West Virginia. Morgantown, W. Va.; Burr W. Torreyson, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark.; Mrs. Helen Marsh Wixson, state superintendent of public instruction, Denver, Col.; L. R. Alderman, state superintendent of public instruction, Salem, Ore.; Agnes E. Howe, State Normal School, San Jose, Cal.; Ada Van Stone Harris, assistant superintendent of schools, Richmond, Va.; Amelia C. Fruchte, first assistant, Central High School, St. Louis, Mo.;

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Cornelia S. Hulst, English department, Central High School Grand Rapids, Mich.; secretary, Durand W. Springer, Ann Arbor, Mich.; treasurer, Grace M. Shepherd, Boise, Idaho.

National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations.

The federation, organized at Buffalo, N. Y., June 10, 1909, is affiliated with the National Conference of Charities and Correction. Officers: Chairman, W. N. Finley, No. 9 E. Lexington street, Baltimore, Md.; secretary, J. T. Exnicios, No. 914 G street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Headquarters, No. 9 E. Lexington street, Baltimore, Md.

National League for the Civic Education of Women.

A non-partisan, non-political organization, whose purpose is to collect, study and disseminate among women the facts of our daily civic life. Officers: President, Mrs. Richard Watson Gilder; secretary, Mrs. William Perry Northrop: treasurer, Miss Elizabeth V. Cockkroft; executive secretary, Miss Genevieve W. Beavers. Office, No. 4 West 47th street, New York City.

National Liberal Immigration League.

Organized, 1906. Object: The proper regulation and better distribution of immigration. Headquarters, No. 150 Nassau street, New York City. President, Edward Lauterbach; first vice-president, S. M. Newman; second vice-president, Wm. D. Eckert; third vice-president, J. B. Young; treasurer, Antonio Zucca; managing director, N. Behar; secretaries, John E. O'Brien and Mark J. Katz; field secretary, B. A. Sekely.

National Probation Association.

Organized in 1906 as the National Probation Officers' Association; title changed to present one in 1911. Purposes: The purposes of the association are to promote the more extensive and wise use of the probation and parole systems of dealing with both juvenile and adult offenders, and to encourage the adoption of the most approved methods of conducting children's courts. Officers: Bernard Flexner, Louisville, Ky., president; Charles A. DeCourcy, Boston, and Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, Chicago, vice-presidents; Arthur W. Towne, The Capitol, Albany, secretarytreasurer.

The National Short Ballot Organization,

The society was organized to explain the short ballot principle to the American people. President, Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, N. J.; vice-presidents: Winston Churchill, Cornish, N. H.; Horace E. Deming, New York, N. Y.; Ben B. Lindsey, Denver, Col.; William S. Uren, Oregon City, Ore.; Wm. Allen White, Emporia, Kan.; Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Philadelphia, Penn.; secretary and treasurer, Richard S. Childs, No. 383 Fourth avenue, New York City.

National Society for Broader Education.

The National Society for Broader Education was organized in December, 1909, and was incorporated under the laws of New York in January, 1910. Its purpose is: "Through the education of the adult to aid in the normal development of national life in removing the causes of distrust and antagonism between classes and in promoting the interests of the whole people." The society carries on its work through the lecture platform, the pulpit and the newspapers. In 1912 its speakers delivered 380 lectures, 160 concert-lectures, several hundred sermons and conducted 440 discussions. Its purposes have been advanced through twenty-one secretaries, whose work has been carried on in thirty-three states. The president of the fellows and associates of the society is Dr. George E. Read, president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn., and the secretary is A. Pollock, corner 11th and Kenyon streets, Washington, D. C. The officers of the corporation are: Managing director and president, Guy Carleton Lee, Baltimore, Md.; secretary and treasurer, H. H. Langsdorf, Carlisle, Penn.; statistician and resident director, William E. Anderson, No. 114 Monroe street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

National Society, Colonial Dames of America.

The National Society of Colonial Dames, organized 1893, is composed of societies of which there is one in each of the thirteen original states and one in the District of Columbia, with associate societies in twenty-four of the non-colonial states. The aggregate membership is over 6,000. The officers of the National Society are: President, Mrs. William Ruffin Cox, Virginia; vice-presidents, Mrs. Joseph Rucker Lamar, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Francis W. Goddard, Colorado Springs, Col.; Mrs. Elihu Chauncey, New York; secretary, Mrs. Charles Miller, Wilmington, Delaware; assistant secretary, Mrs. John T. Taylor, Washington, D. C.; treasurer, Mrs. Alexander J. Cassatt, Pennsylvania; registrar, Mrs. Nathaniel Terry Bacon, New Haven, Conn.; historian, Mrs. Albert L. Siussat, Lake Roland, Md. The New York Society maintains Van Cortlandt House, in Van Cortlandt Park, as a free Colonial museum. It pays for four of the City History Club classes. It gives $50 and a medal for an annual essay at Teachers College of New York, and at the Normal School in Rochester, and a gold watch annually to the best average scholar on the schoolship Newport. The society's rooms are at No. 105 West 40th street. The officers are: President, Mrs. William Robison; vice-presidents, Mrs. William Bedlow Beekman, Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson; recording secretary, Mrs. Edward M. Townsend, jr.; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Benjamin Franklin, No 44 West 9th street, New York City; treasurer, Miss Julia McAllister; registrar, Miss Eva Buckingham, New York City; historian, Mrs. Quincy O'M. Gillmore, New York

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